Ownership

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There’s a lot to debate when it comes to buying an airplane for the first time.

It’s also important to occasionally push and even exceed the limits of your friendships to goad your aviation-loving friends to take the dive and join you in the ranks of airplane owners.

Like sampling a fine wine, one can slowly mosey around the airport, have relaxed conversations, take in the vintage airplanes, and lazily discuss plans.

A new aircraft owner learns lessons and discovers solutions that make winter flying more fun.

An airfield accident while refueling a Cessna 170 leads to powerful lessons.

As an airplane undergoes its first annual inspection under its new owner’s watch, the resulting expectations and nerves transport this pilot into a mental version of a smoky waiting room of expectant fathers.

As the author deals with a case of deja vu, some friends make a mundane task a lot more fun.

Several years ago, a pilot friend and former aircraft owner told me that owning an airplane is “more expensive than you would ever imagine,” and that was assuming I already imagined that it would be extremely expensive, even staggeringly so. Today, as I shop for my own airplane after years of renting, I realize he […]

Friends and an amazing stroke of luck give the writer a solution to a self-inflicted engine problem.